Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem

Original title: Der Kindermörder von Bethlehem? – Herodes der Große

53 minutes • 2019 • 6.5 Score

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.

Nik Wansbrough

Director